Colonialism and imperialism

First published in 1938, this book aims to provide a history of the rise and growth of the Indian National Congress for the general reader, covering the period from its foundation in 1885 until the beginning of the non-co-operation movement in 1920.

The acquisition of table manners and rhetorical skills, the interaction between medicine and eating, and the presence of food in literature and religion shaped Peninsular societies and connected them to a Western European background during the Middle Ages.

It was long assumed that the Soviet Union dictated Warsaw Pact policy in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America (known as the 'Third World' during the Cold War).

Published in 1928, this exploration of the accounts of missionary Thomas Gage, edited by A.

Between 1880 and 1914, tens of thousands of men and women left France for distant religious missions, driven by the desire to spread the word of Jesus Christ, combat Satan, and convert the world's pagans to Catholicism.

Written from an African American perspective, this work depicts the presentation of the gospel message to the first-century community of Colossae, their reception of it comparative to the presentation and reception of the same to the enslaved Africans of North America particularly in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries.

Using the life of an African clerk who became a king under French colonial rule, this book illuminates conflicts over colonial policies and the application of competing rules of law.

First published in 2008.

This volume offers an unusual, interdisciplinary collaboration of scholars working on the major regions of the global South.

The Indian Rebellion 1857-1859: A Military History in the Global Context focuses on the military dimension of this conflict, in which Indian rebels waged both conventional and unconventional warfare against the British.

This book is a detailed analysis of the food scarcity and epidemics among the womenfolk and other vulnerable sections of society in colonial Orissa.

From 1830, if not before, the Empire began to permeate the domestic culture of Empire nations in many ways.

Ireland in an Imperial World interrogates the myriad ways through which Irish men and women experienced, participated in, and challenged empires in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Leprosy and colonialism investigates the history of leprosy in Suriname within the context of Dutch colonial power and racial conflict, from the plantation economy and the age of slavery to the modern colonial state.

In the decades following the era of decolonization, global Christianity experienced a seismic shift.

From 1830, if not before, the Empire began to permeate the domestic culture of Empire nations in many ways.

This edited book uses migrant marginality to problematize several different aspects of global migration.

The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records.

The Seven Years War (1756-1763) was the first global conflict and became the key factor in creating the British Empire.

Drawing upon economic history, cultural studies, intellectual history and the history of science and medicine, this collection of case studies examines the transatlantic transfer and transformation of goods and ideas, with particular emphasis on their reception in Europe.

Montserrat is a small island in the Leeward islands of the eastern Caribbean and at present a British Overseas Territory.

Colonial rule distorts a colony's economy and its society, and British rule was no exception.

This book develops a philosophical conception of human rights that responds satisfactorily to the challenges raised by cultural and political critics of human rights, who contend that the contemporary human rights movement is promoting an imperialist ideology, and that the humanitarian intervention for protecting human rights is a neo-colonialism.

Migration, Family and the Welfare State explores understandings and practices of integration in the Scandinavian welfare societies of Denmark, Norway and Sweden through a comprehensive range of detailed ethnographic studies.

This book develops an ethnography of Kamba witchcraft and its contentious relationship with the state in colonial Kenya.

Providing a survey of colonial American history both regionally broad and "e;Atlantic"e; in coverage, Converging Worlds presents the most recent research in an accessible manner for undergraduate students.

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This book is the first major attempt to examine the cultural manifestations of the demise of imperialism as a social and political ideology in post-war Britain.

The Neo-Assyrian empire -- the first large empire of the ancient world -- has attracted a great deal of public attention ever since the spectacular discoveries of its impressive remains in the 19th century.

In 1919 the Treaty of Versailles stripped Germany of its overseas colonies.

This book explores the Kuki uprising against the British Empire during the First World War in Northeast frontier of India (then Assam-Burma frontier).

Colonial America and the Earl of Halifax, 1748-1761 examines the governance of British America in the period prior to the American Revolution.

First published in 2008.

For Africans, rank and file colonial officials were the most visible manifestation of British imperial power.

Republican China attracted an uncommon diversity of foreign interests, groups, and individuals, which included missionaries, adventurers, diplomats, academics, humanitarians and refugees, as well as hedonists and tourists.

In this superb volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series, Colin Calloway reveals how the Treaty of Paris of 1763 had a profound effect on American history, setting in motion a cascade of unexpected consequences, as Indians and Europeans, settlers and frontiersmen, all struggled to adapt to new boundaries, new alignments, and new relationships.

Biographical research can illuminate imperial and colonial history.

A major reassessment of the end of the British empire, focusing on the period after 1945, first published in 2007.

This book, first published in 1981, is a study of the social and political sources of amoral political rule in modern times.

A Sourcebook of Early Modern European History not only provides instructors with primary sources of a manageable length and translated into English, it also offers students a concise explanation of their context and meaning.

Britain fought three major wars, and two minor ones, with the Asante people of West Africa in the nineteenth century.

Dramatic innovations in modern Japan include a mass army, overseas empire, and constitutional polity.

This book explores the ways in which Ayurveda, the oldest medical tradition of the Indian subcontinent, was transformed from a composite of 'ancient' medical knowledge into a 'modern' medical system, suited to the demands posed by apparatuses of health developed in late colonial India.

This edited volume systematically analyzes the connection between xenophobia, nativism, and Pan-Africanism.

This volume explores how the Cultural Cold War played out in Africa and Asia in the context of decolonization.